Commit Graph

7388 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane
bd01a4e3b7 Update release notes for security-related releases in all active branches.
Security: CVE-2007-0555, CVE-2007-0556
2007-02-02 00:10:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
dc4c26c37e Fix broken markup. 2007-02-01 22:06:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f7e5ecb026 Add "May/Can/Might" section to error message style guidlines, and
"can't" -> "cannot" section.
2007-02-01 21:28:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
52096ae119 Mention file system replication as a high availability solution in the
shared hardware section, and mention DRBD as a popular solution.
2007-02-01 21:02:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
a9d5fb5a02 Typo fix. 2007-02-01 20:28:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
db047e571d Add URL for:
o Add long file support for binary pg_dump output
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-12/msg00551.php
2007-02-01 19:13:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8b4ff8b6a1 Wording cleanup for error messages. Also change can't -> cannot.
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:

        may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."

        can - ability, "I can lift that log."

        might - possibility, "It might rain today."

Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as
in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better
choice.  Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".
2007-02-01 19:10:30 +00:00
Neil Conway
baaec74c5a Fix broken markup. 2007-02-01 07:00:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f1b68860bc Add 8.2.0 "Incomatibilities" documentation that pg_dump's -n and -t
behavior has changed.
2007-02-01 05:12:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
969320c8b8 Chinese FAQ update
Daojing.Zhou
2007-02-01 04:55:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a867c5aa2f Update URL for function permission checks
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-12/msg00564.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-12/msg00568.php
>
2007-02-01 04:51:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2ccb40b532 Add:
>
> * Tighten function permission checks
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-12/msg00564.php
>
2007-02-01 04:50:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fa3f06dc6b Add:
>
> * Tighten trigger permission checks
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-12/msg00564.php
>
2007-02-01 04:49:43 +00:00
Neil Conway
bd2c171414 This patch adds documentation for the long-version parameters --username
and --password for pg_dump, pg_dumpall and pg_restore, per complaint by
Michael Schmidt. Patch from Magnus Hagander.
2007-02-01 04:39:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e665137250 Add:
>
> * Fix problem when multiple subtransactions of the same outer transaction
>   hold different types of locks, and one subtransaction aborts
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-11/msg01011.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-12/msg00001.php
2007-02-01 04:35:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b3687889c4 Update CREATE SEQUENCE documentation to show the same sequence being
created and increments.  The old docs created the sequence, then showed
a nextval() of 114.
2007-02-01 00:34:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
40bf8717cf Add URL for:
o Fix RENAME to work on variables other than OLD/NEW
>       http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg01615.php
2007-02-01 00:32:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
09a9f10e7f Consistenly use colons before '<programlisting>' blocks, where
appropriate.
2007-02-01 00:28:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e81c138e18 Update reference documentation on may/can/might:
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:

        may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."

        can - ability, "I can lift that log."

        might - possibility, "It might rain today."

Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as
in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better
choice.  Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".
2007-01-31 23:26:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
482e6936fa Revert error message change for may/can/might --- needs discussion. 2007-01-31 21:03:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a134ee3379 Update documentation on may/can/might:
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:

        may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."

        can - ability, "I can lift that log."

        might - possibility, "It might rain today."

Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as
in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better
choice.  Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".

Also update two error messages mentioned in the documenation to match.
2007-01-31 20:56:20 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
b62f85691e Update FreeBSD DocBook installation notices 2007-01-31 15:23:28 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
d4c6da1527 Allow GIN's extractQuery method to signal that nothing can satisfy the query.
In this case extractQuery should returns -1 as nentries. This changes
prototype of extractQuery method to use int32* instead of uint32* for
nentries argument.
Based on that gincostestimate may see two corner cases: nothing will be found
or seqscan should be used.

Per proposal at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg01581.php

PS tsearch_core patch should be sightly modified to support changes, but I'm
waiting a verdict about reviewing of tsearch_core patch.
2007-01-31 15:09:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
147a3ce149 Add URL:
o Fix RENAME to work on variables other than OLD/NEW
>
> 		  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-03/msg00591.php
>
2007-01-31 04:23:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0867493510 Document need for periodic REINDEX in VACUUM FULL cases. 2007-01-31 04:13:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1a62813464 Add missing colon. 2007-01-31 04:12:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
99507b9a92 Add:
>
> * Add REINDEX CONCURRENTLY, like CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY
>
>   This is difficult because you must upgrade to an exclusive table lock
>   to replace the existing index file.  CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY does not
>   have this complication.  This would allow index compaction without
>   downtime.
2007-01-31 03:17:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
62b2786b82 Update for VACUUM FULL:
<   reindex rather than update the index.
>   reindex rather than update the index.  Also, index updates can
>   bloat the index.
2007-01-31 03:07:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aca00a8b98 Add:
> 	o ARRAY[[1,2],[3,4]])[1] should return the same values as
> 	  ARRAY[[1,2],[3,4]])[1:1];
>
2007-01-30 22:55:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
91a753f68b Add FAQ item about timezones and daylight savings time. 2007-01-30 22:37:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4ed9f1d9b7 Update documentation for backslashes to mention escape string syntax
more, and standard_conforming_strings less, because in the future non-E
strings will not treat backslashes specially.

Also use E'' strings where backslashes are used in examples. (The
existing examples would have drawn warnings.)

Backpatch to 8.2.X.
2007-01-30 22:29:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ae875d318e Update documentation for pg_get_serial_sequence() function. 2007-01-30 02:39:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c120dd263b Update wording for minor release upgrades, per Alvaro. 2007-01-29 21:49:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
631d7018df Done:
< * Add Globally/Universally Unique Identifier (GUID/UUID)
> * -Add Globally/Universally Unique Identifier (GUID/UUID)
2007-01-29 21:19:30 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
48ba3f5711 Update documentation on XML functions 2007-01-29 13:24:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3ec7ae1b67 Modify SGML makefile to allow 'gmake draft' to build draft html ('draft'
is now a target, no longer a modifier).
2007-01-27 22:44:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
abbf860f72 Add:
> * Enforce typmod for function inputs, function results and parameters for
>   spi_prepare'd statements called from PLs
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg01403.php
2007-01-27 03:25:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ddf569e3ed Add:
> * Consider having the background writer update the transaction status
>   hint bits before writing out the page
2007-01-27 02:29:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f77b1f05f5 Add:
>
> * Consider increasing NUM_CLOG_BUFFERS
2007-01-27 02:28:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
27552ce540 Update installation wording for an upgrade to state that dump/restore
should not be done, per Peter.
2007-01-27 01:27:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
adef25e5ea Control openjade draft-mode by variable DRAFT, rather than whether the
version tag is 'devel'.
2007-01-26 23:51:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f0fc95612d Update wording of installation when upgrading, to more clearly
distinguish major vs minor release upgrades.
2007-01-26 22:52:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
320abc3a95 Modify draft SGML instructions to use DRAFT=Y because recursion was
causing html to be called twice --- no way to exit the makefile after
the recursion returns.
2007-01-26 22:23:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8924c56820 Update BSD/OS platform for 8.2. 2007-01-25 23:34:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2e6d1e5f7a Add URL for shrinking tuple to just its headers:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg01025.php
2007-01-25 22:25:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
167fa70a2e Update pg_dumpall -f option description. 2007-01-25 15:08:06 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
22bd156ff0 Various fixes in the logic of XML functions:
- Add new SQL command SET XML OPTION (also available via regular GUC) to
  control the DOCUMENT vs. CONTENT option in implicit parsing and
  serialization operations.

- Subtle corrections in the handling of the standalone property in
  xmlroot().

- Allow xmlroot() to work on content fragments.

- Subtle corrections in the handling of the version property in
  xmlconcat().

- Code refactoring for producing XML declarations.
2007-01-25 11:53:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9597446d11 Done:
> 	o -Add a GUC variable to control the tablespace for temporary objects
2007-01-25 04:38:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
148ea5cbea Add GUC temp_tablespaces to provide a default location for temporary
objects.

Jaime Casanova
2007-01-25 04:35:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6441288ec9 Add 'output file' option for pg_dumpall, especially useful for Win32,
where output redirection of child processes (pg_dump) doesn't work.

Dave Page
2007-01-25 03:30:43 +00:00